{"id":13299,"date":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/meta-turns-to-ai-to-identify-teens-who-misrepresent-their-age\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:00:46","slug":"meta-turns-to-ai-to-identify-teens-who-misrepresent-their-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/meta-turns-to-ai-to-identify-teens-who-misrepresent-their-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta turns to AI to identify teens who misrepresent their age"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Juliet Umeh<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta has expanded its artificial intelligence technology globally to identify teenagers who may have used an adult birthday to set up accounts and place them in age-appropriate protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said on Monday that the technology would help more teenagers using Instagram receive the platform\u2019s built-in Teen Account safeguards, even if they had misrepresented their age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta said some teenagers misrepresent their age online to access experiences they are not old enough to use, describing this as an \u201cindustry-wide challenge\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEnsuring all teens receive these protections depends on knowing their age,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Teen Account features on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger automatically limit who can contact teenagers, the content they see and the time they spend on the apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta said it uses AI to identify people it suspects are teenagers, \u201ceven if they use an adult birthday\u201d, and place them in Teen Account protections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince first introducing this technology, Meta has been placing more teens in age-appropriate protections and is encouraged by the results,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It added that the global expansion would mean \u201cmillions more teens across the world who use Instagram\u201d would receive the safeguards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta said the move would offer parents \u201cgreater peace of mind\u201d, adding that it was working to place teenagers in age-appropriate protections \u201cno matter where they live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company said it was continuing to roll out the technology on Facebook and would begin introducing similar technology globally on Threads later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/meta-turns-to-ai-to-identify-teens-who-misrepresent-their-age\/\">Meta turns to AI to identify teens who misrepresent their age<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juliet Umeh Meta has expanded its artificial intelligence technology globally to identify teenagers who may have used an adult birthday to set up accounts and place them in age-appropriate&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}